> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 369](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212411) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10691-1) LSID 10691-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21610777) QID Q21610777 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tissière, Pierre Germain (1828-1868), Swiss roman-catholic priest and amateur botanist; at the Grand St. Bernard monastery 1843-1856 (ordained 1852); vicar of Vouvry 1857, at Sembrancher 1857-1868; driving force in the Société Murithienne. **Abbreviated name**: *Tissière* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tissière*\] #### Herbarium and types Tissière's herbarium went to Chanoine de la Soie, at Martigny. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 12(2): 226 ("Tissier", epon.); Barnhart 3: 387; BL 2: 589, 724; BM 5: 2117; Jackson p. 344; Rehder 1: 435; Saccardo 1: 163-164; Tucker 1: 692. #### Biofile - Beck, \[Chanoine\], *in* P.G. Tissière, Guide du botaniste sur le Grand St. Bernard iii-vii. 1868 (biogr. note, b. 25 Feb 1828, d. 1 Jun 1868). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 454 (and 451 Soie) 1880. ### Publications ##### n.14.604. Guide du botaniste sur le Grand S **Title** *Guide du botaniste sur le Grand S*t-*Bernard*... Aigle (imprimerie Dulex-Ansermoz) 1868. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1868 (p. vii: 2 Aug 1868), frontisp., p. \[i\]-xviii, \[19\]-117. *Copies*: BR, G, HH, MO, USDA. – Issued with and bound in front of Bulletin de la Société Murithienne du Valais. Tissière was president of this Society; the members of the Society in this way honored Tissière posthumously. – For further reference to literature on the flora of the Grand St. Bernard see BL 2: 589.